March 26, 2025
ZONING, LYING ARE PARAMOUNT ISSUES IN EVANSTON, SCHILLER PARK MAYOR CONTESTS
All politics is local, and you cannot get any more micro-political than the 137 municipalities and 30 suburban Cook County townships which will hold elections on April 1, you know, April Fool’s Day. Mundane governmental housekeeping tasks need to be performed and there are plenty of self-interested politicians who are eager to “serve.” You, know, after April Fool’s Day. EVANSTON: You have got to love a city of 75,070 which has foreign policy, a domestic policy and a humongous reservoir of affluent “Liberal White Guilt.” And also an ocean of virtue. But only a puddle of Trump worship. Biden won with 90 percent in 2020, Clinton with 87 percent in 2016 and Obama with 85 percent in 2012. First, on foreign affairs, the city has told the world, particularly Russia, “don’t mess with Evanston, Illinois, USA.” Rumor has it that Russia’s generals were so impressed and intimidated that they re-calibrated their missiles’ guidance systems and instead now plan to plop a multi-megaton warhead on Skokie. Just kidding. But it’s the thought that counts, not the body count. SCHILLER PARK: Most politicians are known to lie, some more than others. Some might call it simple exaggeration or embellishment. And that’s OK with one’s fellow politicians, as long as the lies are to the voting public. But there is one cardinal rule: THOU SHALT NOT LIE to other politicians who claim to be your buddy and/or ally. DES PLAINES: Term limits are just swell for young aspiring politicians because it gives them an opening to win by not having to defeat an entrenched, well-funded incumbent. Not so much for the incumbent who sees an exit door looming. That’s the predicament of Mayor Andrew Goczkowski, an ambitious Democrat with great delusions about becoming a congressman. PARK RIDGE: Hillary Rodham Clinton is the city’s most famous legacy. She was born and raised there during an era when it was hip to be square. Hillary was a “Goldwater Girl” back in 1964, parading around in a skirt and sash for the conservative Republican presidential nominee, who won Park Ridge 60/40. Full Article...
March 19, 2025
RATS, TRASH, TOTES ARE DOMINATING ISSUE IN SKOKIE MAYORAL RACE
There are a lot of rats in Skokie, and I don’t mean the politicians. Villagers must be buying a lot of food and not eating all of it, thereby creating a lot of bio-degrading food waste and spoilage which crams a lot of 64-gallon garbage carts and provides a lot of tasty cuisine for the chubby critters. This irritates many Skokie voters. The April 1 municipal election is not about thwarting any threats to democracy, or saving the soul of Skokie, or about reproductive rights, or halting the onward march of Trumpism. Instead the thundering chorus is about getting rid of those rats. How mundane can you get? It’s a quality-of-life issue. Possible solutions involve bringing in ICE and deporting all the rodents to Evanston or, more likely, Chicago. Or bring in Brandon Johnson’s approach which is to not exterminate the execrable rats but stick them in a shelter, give them three meals a day at government expense and proclaim success. Lifsics, the sole Jewish candidate in a village which is 28 percent Jewish – way down from 56 percent in the 1950s – is the most adamant about more tote pickups. Esho, who is an Assyrian-American, essentially ignores the issue. “His (Isho’s) campaign is just a bunch of platitudes,” said Van Dusen. Tennes was a longtime village employee in the communications department. She is “studying” the rats/totes issue. All are Democrats but the election is non-partisan. Lifsics will win by 100 votes.Full Article...
March 12, 2025
SOCIOPATHIC DEMOCRATS VIEW 2026 GOVERNOR RACES AS PRELUDE FOR POST-TRUMP ERA
It is time for Republicans to stop accusing Democratic politicians of being socialists, although it is somewhat accurate that they want to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor – while putting a chunk in their pockets. To be really accurate Republicans should be tossing around the characterization of some top Democratic leaders, especially in a nationwide context, as “sociopaths.” That term describes a person (or entity) totally devoid of a moral compass, who knows not right from wrong, truth from falsity, but is obsessed and motivated only by what is good or bad for themselves, personally or financially. They are selfish, greedy, neurotic, narcissistic and, invariably, arrogant, although Republicans can be guilty of the same thing. They are also liars who wallow in the swamp of victim-hood, self-pity and low self-esteem. They never take blame for their bad judgments and stupid decisions. Others might know them as Biden-Harris Democrats. 2026 contests in CA, NY, OH, IL and TX are analyzed. And remember: Trump is in his final 1,400 days. The end is near. Full Article...
March 5, 2025
POLL SHOWS CHICAGO MAYOR JOHNSON "UNDERWATER" BY 73.3 POINTS IN "APPROVAL"
The good news for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is that he still has more than 2 years in his term. The bad news is that Johnson still has 2 more years to serve as mayor – and I use the phrase “serve” advisedly. The horrendous news for Chicagoans is that the mayor’s decision-making demonstrated since he was elected will surely lead to 2 more years of misgovernance, political wins and political loses. M3 Strategies, a firm founded by politician-turned-pollster Matt Podgorski, was commissioned to do a poll by the Urban Center, a conservative pro-school choice group, and was on the phone Feb. 20-21 and got a sample of 700 Likely Voters (LVs). Their key question, according to Podgorski, was “Do you approve of Mayor Johnson’s job performance?” Yes or No? The result was an astonishing 6.6/79.9. That’s right – just 6.6 percent approved. 6.6 percent. Attached is a CHART detailing mayoral results in 2019, 2023. NOTE TO MY READERS: As some may have noticed this columnist/column was MIA for 6 of the past 7 weeks. Consider it my long-delayed Spring Break. Contrary to rumors, I didn’t die. After writing this stuff weekly for nearly 53 years, starting in June 1973 (when Nixon was president), I was pondering that fearsome STEP ASIDE time we all will someday confront. I was having fun watching the Trump transition 24/7 on FOX News and the Left’s predictable hysteria. But it’s still more fun to mock, lampoon and satirize the idiocy and mendacity of the Democrats and the Left. So I’m back. At least for a little while longer. Pray for that. Full Article...
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